THE SCENTLESS 

 MAYWEED. 



JIatricaria iiiodora. Nat. Ord., Composite. 



E have in Britain several species 

 of the great composite family all 

 of which bear a certain general 

 similarity to the plant figured in 

 our present illustration, though 

 a very slight amount of investi- 

 gation and comparison will, we 

 do not doubt, suffice to enable 

 our readers to decide accurately 

 as to the probable identity of any 

 likely-looking plant with the sub- 

 ject of our plate. In some of these 

 allied plants the foliage is much 

 fuller in character than that of the 

 present species ; in others, the large 

 yellow disk is not so convex and 

 ball-like ; in some, again, the white rays are 

 more erect ; while in others a strong scent, 

 sometimes pleasant, but more ordinarily disagreeable, makes 

 itself very perceptible. 



The scentless mayweed may be very commonly met 

 with in fields, by the way-sides, and springing up freely 

 amidst rubbish-heaps and on any patch of waste ground. 

 It flowers throughout the whole summer and late into the 



